AVERAGES WIPE OUT STEEP LOSSES AS SHORTS BACK AWAY One of the persistent problems that the equities market - and especially those hard-hit financial services components - have faced during the bear ma...

INSURERS PART OF FORCED DIVESTITURES The efforts by Hartford Financial Services (HIG) to defend its commercial mortgage-backed securities portfolios hasn’t done much to dissuade investors’ concerns th...

Insurance companies have now joined the growing list of American firms vying for a piece of the bailout pie.According to the Wall Street Journal large insurance companies are snatching up small region...

Hartford Financial (HIG), Genworth (GNW) and a few others have figured out that they can buy a small bank, conver to an S&L, apply to the TARP and profit. It's a clever move, and it'll probably wo...

Genworth Financial in Talks to Buy Minnesota-Based InterBank